"Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone will say 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp,' out of the blue. No explanation and there's no point in looking for one either. It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness."
Tracey Walter as "Miller" in "Repo Man"

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Golden Delicious Apples

This may come as a surprise to many who read the Arizona Republic editorial pages regularly: they don't always publish idiotic rantings. They are inconsistent. Sometimes genuinely thoughtful remarks are allowed to slip through.

"We played against them in the Elite Eight round at this year's NCAA tournament, but our connection goes beyond that recent competition. In the pre-season "Paradise Jam" Women's Basketball Tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands in November, ASU's women's basketball team was scheduled to play Rutgers when a personal tragedy struck our team and we withdrew from the tournament.

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights could have claimed a forfeit victory in the game, but they did not. They honored our loss by showing us extraordinary support, compassion and respect."

Basketball is obviously not the only thing that the players on the Rutgers team do well. I hope your own daughters and sons turn out that way and that they do not take to the unsavory humorless drivel that passes for political and popular discourse in various media these days, particularly amplitude modulation radio signals.

On ABC Radio/Disney station KSFO 560 AM in SF on July 27th 2006 Ann Coulter was talking to Lee Rodgers, Melanie Morgan and Tom Benner (whose pseudonym is "Officer Vic") about the bombing in Southern Lebanon. The first person talking is Lee Rodgers.

Ann Coulter: "On the bright side we hit a couple of UN peacekeepers."Melanie Morgan: laughsOfficer Vic: "Look at those blue helmets go flyin'"Coulter: "Somebody has to tell Israel about the installation on 42nd street."Laughter